2nd day - Granville Island

Here's a fun place to visit. It's another older industrial area that's been gentrified and turned into a tourist attraction, but it's a destination for locals as well. The old industrial buildings have largely been repopulated with artists and artisans, whose studios and shops are open to the public (there are also a few remaining working businesses that aren't). There's also a working boatyard and, by far the most popular attraction, a huge Public Market where all sorts of commodities - particularly fresh foods - are sold. Browsing the aisles as merchants are busy negotiating prices with buyers, in a cluster of interconnected buildings that seems to go on forever, you might spend the entire day in the Public Market alone. I think it would take at least a week to really see everything at Granville Island.